[libvirt] Does libvirt live migration have error handling on port bind failure

[Prasanna Kalever]

Can someone please invest few cycles here ?

Thanks,
--
Prasanna


On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Prasanna Kalever <pkalever at redhat.com> wrote:
> [ oops! apologies, my previous draft miss the links ]
>
> Hello,
>
> This was the scenario close to 3 years back, libvirt's live migration
> tries to use ports in ephemeral port range, but has no fallback to use
> (an)other port(s) when the one it wants is already in use.
>
> If some port say 49152 is already used by some application say gluster
> in our case (gluster as of today also uses 49152-65535), live
> migration fails because of lack of fallback mechanism in libvirt,
> that's where gluster had compromised to go with some hack [1] on bug
> [2] since getting that addressed in libvirt takes more time than it
> does with gluster.
>
> As may releases passed from then in libvirt, I hope now there exist a
> fallback mechanism for port conflicts in libvirt.
>
> Can someone confirm so ?
>
> Also It will be greatly appreciable, if someone can tell how the port
> binding (mostly defense on clash) works with libvirt live migration
> today ?
>
> [1] http://review.gluster.org/#/c/6210/
> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1018178
>
> Sincere Thanks,
> --
> Prasanna